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republican governor rick scott denied requests to extend early voting by one day. joining me now for today ease strategy talk, karen finney, msnbc political analyst and tony frato, former white house deputy press secretary under president george w. bush. hello to both of you. >> your setup there looks fantastic. democracy plaza looks great. >> i wish you were here to see it. they have been working so hard on this. i could go on an on. we have details to get to. people ice skating. it's just cool. but let's talk about a couple of different ideas here, karen, with you. two respected political analysts have widely divergent predictions for the election. nate silver gives the president an 84% chance of winning and says he'll get 305 electoral votes. flip side mitt romney will be winning with 315 electoral votes. does anyone know what's going to happen? >> no, of course not. this is why i love politics. and this is why i love the pollsters. they try to apply science and data that predict. we're talk about human beings. and human behavior is unpredictable. we can have a
republican governor rick scott denied requests to extend early voting by one day. joining me now for today ease strategy talk, karen finney, msnbc political analyst and tony frato, former white house deputy press secretary under president george w. bush. hello to both of you. >> your setup there looks fantastic. democracy plaza looks great. >> i wish you were here to see it. they have been working so hard on this. i could go on an on. we have details to get to. people ice skating....
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the legislature, rick scott shortened the early voting days. and relative to the early voting hours we had in 2008 in south florida, they essentially cut them by 22% or about 24 hours. so it's going to make a difference. what we're going to see on election day now is a lot of those folks who probably would have early voted, they're going to show up on election day and cast ballots. so the question is how many of these people are actually voting for obama? how many are voting for romney? obviously we don't know. indications are from our poll is that romney is winning the key demographic or the key swing voters or the key swing state, and that's the independent voters. he is marginally winning them. he is also doing well with north florida democrats, certain crossover democrats, rural democrats. he pulls about 16% of them on our poll, where as obama only pulls about 5% republican support. so that crossover appeal so to speak of romney's in florida and the independent edge that he appears to have is making a difference. but good campaigns can chan
the legislature, rick scott shortened the early voting days. and relative to the early voting hours we had in 2008 in south florida, they essentially cut them by 22% or about 24 hours. so it's going to make a difference. what we're going to see on election day now is a lot of those folks who probably would have early voted, they're going to show up on election day and cast ballots. so the question is how many of these people are actually voting for obama? how many are voting for romney?...
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an updated -- the florida democratic party has gone to federal court to sue governor rick scott for refusing to issue an executive order extending early voting hours beyond saturday. the cutoff is sunday, obviously with the law that cut early vote egg from 14 to 8 days. the lines are wrapped around the block and they're demanding more time for voters to vote and particularly long lines in the democratic part of the state, in the south. in ohio, democrats have gone to court because the secretary of state, john houston, changed the provisional ballot that mostly poor people have to vote on. they changed it on a way that the voter has to input the i.d. information. which is in contra vengs to ohio state law who says it's a poll worker's job to put that in. almost all poor people have to vote with their social security number in ohio. they'll be voting on provisional ballots. big disen tran chiesment. >> approximate you're a voter in ohio, you may know what the nation's cover story revealed last week. romney's pailout bonanza that mitt romney and his wife made at least $15 million on the very au
an updated -- the florida democratic party has gone to federal court to sue governor rick scott for refusing to issue an executive order extending early voting hours beyond saturday. the cutoff is sunday, obviously with the law that cut early vote egg from 14 to 8 days. the lines are wrapped around the block and they're demanding more time for voters to vote and particularly long lines in the democratic part of the state, in the south. in ohio, democrats have gone to court because the secretary...
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a panel set up by governor rick scott recommends that schools give a break to students for math and science. that's most needed for the florida job market. and those studying political science will have to pay more because they have fewer job prospects in the state. vice-president joe biden is at it again with another gaffe on the campaign trail. this time flubs the name of a democratic senate candidate at an event, key swing state of virginia. >> i want to tell you it's good to be in the state that's going to be represented by tim kai kaine. i'm a big tom kaine began. a big tom kaine fan. >> alisyn: he had it right the first time. and former governor tim kaine, not tom, is running for the senate. the candidate did not seem bothered by the mistake, and tim kaine took to twitter and thanked the vice-president saying a shout out, saying, i love jay biden. those are your headlines. >> clayton: thanks, alisyn. time to talk sports because san francisco closer, closing romo slammed the door on the tigers in the 9th last night giving the giants a 3-0 zeros lead and romo is known for his wild antic
a panel set up by governor rick scott recommends that schools give a break to students for math and science. that's most needed for the florida job market. and those studying political science will have to pay more because they have fewer job prospects in the state. vice-president joe biden is at it again with another gaffe on the campaign trail. this time flubs the name of a democratic senate candidate at an event, key swing state of virginia. >> i want to tell you it's good to be in the...
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scott. he has basically dismissed all requests to continue early voting to extend early voting hours to include today the last sunday before election day which four years ago led to a lot of voters going from church to the polls and voting for president obama. democrats have been saying for about it is simply an effort to ong lines and c turnout. super long waits experienced by early voters in miami dade county broward county and palm beach county the democratic party says insufficient polling stations led to 5 and 6 hour long waits. led many voters to turn around and go home not have the opportunity to vote early. it is unclear how fast a court can act. as of right now florida law is early voting is over. back to you. >> phil keating live in tampa with that headline. you talk about long lines. i am getting so many people going through social media and twitter going where do i vote? i don't have electricity. how do i find out where to go with my ballot? what is a ballot what is this thing ab
scott. he has basically dismissed all requests to continue early voting to extend early voting hours to include today the last sunday before election day which four years ago led to a lot of voters going from church to the polls and voting for president obama. democrats have been saying for about it is simply an effort to ong lines and c turnout. super long waits experienced by early voters in miami dade county broward county and palm beach county the democratic party says insufficient polling...